Archive for December 29th, 2010

Installing wget on Mac OS X

Wget is a great command line for grabbing things from the web, but it doesn’t ship with macs. So if you want to install it here are a few steps:

1. download the source file: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.tar.gz
2. compile and install it:
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If you are thinking to sell your computer or only its hard disk then maybe it would be nice to know how to wipe your computer data.

After you followed this procedure there will be no way to recover your data.

The magic command is here, you can use LiveCD (for example Knoppix):
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